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In Oklahoma, the results of the legal as well as the extra-legal policies of educational discrimination have deprived the Negro population of professional services in the fields of medicine, dentistry and law. The extent of this deprivation can best be judged by the following data, in which the figures represent one lawyer, doctor and dentist, respectively, to the following number of white and Negro popula- tion :15

That this critical situation is not peculiar to Oklahoma alone but is an inevitable result of the policy of racial segregation and discrimination in education is demonstrated by an analysis made by Dr. Charles H. Thompson.16 He states that: "In 1940 there were 160,845 white and 3,524 Negro physicians and surgeons in the United States. In proportion to population these represented one physician to the following number of the white and Negro population, respecitvely :

15 Based on data in Sixteenth Census of the United States: Population, Vol. III, Part 4, Reports by States (1940). 16 Charles H. Thompson, "Some Critical Aspects of the Problem of the Higher and Professional Education for Negroes," Journal of Negro Education (Fall 1945), pp. 511-512. * To the nearest hundred.

Brief Plaintiff-in-Error Ada Lois Sipuel v. OU Board of Regents. State Supreme Court Civil Case No. 32756 regarding the first African-American woman admitted to the University of Oklahoma law school in 1948.

[specific document title], Ada Lois Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Civil Case No. 32756, Record Group 29-1-3, Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Archives Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma City, OK.

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In Oklahoma, the results of the legal as well as the extra-legal policies of educational discrimination have deprived the Negro population of professional services in the fields of medicine, dentistry and law. The extent of this deprivation can best be judged by the following data, in which the figures represent one lawyer, doctor and dentist, respectively, to the following number of white and Negro popula- tion :15

That this critical situation is not peculiar to Oklahoma alone but is an inevitable result of the policy of racial segregation and discrimination in education is demonstrated by an analysis made by Dr. Charles H. Thompson.16 He states that: "In 1940 there were 160,845 white and 3,524 Negro physicians and surgeons in the United States. In proportion to population these represented one physician to the following number of the white and Negro population, respecitvely :

15 Based on data in Sixteenth Census of the United States: Population, Vol. III, Part 4, Reports by States (1940). 16 Charles H. Thompson, "Some Critical Aspects of the Problem of the Higher and Professional Education for Negroes," Journal of Negro Education (Fall 1945), pp. 511-512. * To the nearest hundred.

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[specific document title], Ada Lois Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Civil Case No. 32756, Record Group 29-1-3, Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Archives Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma City, OK.

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Oklahoma State Archives Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/cdm4/rights.php